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### Understanding the Report Template Editor

To access the Report Template Editor, select File | Reporting | New | Report Template. To open an existing report template, select File | Reporting | Edit | Report Template.

PC-DMIS displays the Report Template Editor in a new window.

Report Template Editor

The Report Template Editor acts as a work area. It enables you to drag, size, and place various objects, and set their properties. You place your objects on top of the white area, called the template or section. If you have worked with legacy (HyperView) reporting in previous versions of PC-DMIS, you will feel at home with this editor since it essentially functions much the same way and contains many of the same user interface elements.

With the template approach to reporting, you cannot place the Report or Label template editors into run mode. They only open in edit mode and cannot be switched. Run mode still functions with the Form Editor.

Run Mode - This mode only works with the Form Editor. In Run Mode you can run (or execute) your form, testing it for how it would look or behave in an actual measurement routine execution environment.

Edit Mode - This is the default mode for all the reporting editors and is the only mode for the Report and Label template editors.

You can switch between run and edit modes by pressing CTRL + E.

The editor contains the following elements:

- The Menu bar

- The Font Bar (toolbar)

- The Object Bar (toolbar)

- The Layout Bar (toolbar)

- Object Property Sheets

- Sections

- Working with the Grid

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